Example sentences of "[been] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some women have acquired status as heroines ; Rosalba Carriera , Angelica Kauffmann , Rosa Bonheur , Berthe Morisot , Paula Modersohn-Becker and Käthe Kollwitz have found places in a pantheon of major talent from which there ought never to have been any question of their exclusion . |
| 2 | I could have been any little old lady waiting for a relative to arrive from Holland . |
| 3 | Happily , there has n't been any problem with the pernicious perennial weeds I find elsewhere in the garden , such as the deep-rooting bindweed and ground elder . |
| 4 | Indeed , it is often assumed by Continental and North American commentators that there has never been any significant literary theory in England . |
| 5 | He admitted the party and individual MPs received a total of nearly £38,000 , but insisted it was all legal and there had never been any attempt to favour the pachinko industry in parliament . |
| 6 | Traffic of this kind had occurred on a large scale in the period following on the October Revolution , but if there had been any ‘ bagmen ’ left by 1921–2 in the Middle Volga region , they would have been ruthlessly stamped out . |
| 7 | In a flash a sniper , who could have been any gun happy soul anywhere , had killed . |
| 8 | It was hours now since we had last eaten , hours more since there had been any sleep . |
| 9 | She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children . |
| 10 | Nor had there been any sort of cultural rethink sufficient to justify the confidence American companies were now placing in British filmmakers . |
| 11 | The Prime Minister has again denied that there had been any direct British assistance to the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia . |
| 12 | The magistrate , Mr S.K. Upadhyaya , resplendent among the dusty villagers in a navy blazer and a silver-tipped walking stick , denied that there had been any attempt to intimidate voters . |
| 13 | ‘ There have never been any thoughts in my mind that I would get something from the Government . ’ |
| 14 | He is unlikely to be satisfied with an offer to re-run the reselection procedure if it can be proved that there have been any serious breaches of the party 's rules . |
| 15 | Apart from that it could have been any accident on an urban road . |
| 16 | The girl that was Angela Morgan had looked out of the photograph , whereas what lay on the ground , arms outstretched , could have been any young woman with dark hair . |
| 17 | Nor has there been any direct challenge to the chairman . |
| 18 | There can not have been any English fans who had expected their team to win the series , but the manner in which they were just being steam-rollered seemly scarcely credible . |
| 19 | It was Doyle who answered , thoughtfully , as though it had been any ordinary question . |
| 20 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |
| 21 | Leo had promised to ring me that evening in case there had been any news from the hospital ; and I told him my own news . |
| 22 | Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all . |
| 23 | ‘ Imagine that ! ’ she had said again , to her escort , who wore white gloves , of course , because it was evening , but whose name she could never remember — it might have been any one of half a dozen — and whose fresh , young face was in shadow . |
| 24 | Tammuz had been so gentle that there 'd hardly been any pain , expertly coaxing each orifice to orgasm until Zambia felt SHe must die from sensory overload . |
| 25 | With mum Carol 's heritage it could never have been any other way — her roots , after all , lay thousands of miles away in Wales , the Land of Song . |
| 26 | If he 'd been an ordinary man , there would n't have been any problem . ’ |
| 27 | There has never been any corroboration . |
| 28 | Nor have there been any informal jolly gatherings when the daily toil of pressing the flesh is over : Mr Kinnock wandering back among the press party , glass of whisky in hand , letting his ( metaphorical ) hair down a little , tipping us just the hint of a wink that this is all just a great game . |
| 29 | It was the first time in the campaign that there had been any rapport between the embattled figures on the platform and the assembled press and television correspondents . |
| 30 | In Ireland last week , we were accused of writing a ‘ dirty ’ book for vulgar gain ( would it have been any better if we 'd done it for charity ? ) and worse , of racism . |